week two

reflections on uncertainty:

what a wonderful thing. in one small area of science it is accepted that "we" don't know, can't know for sure. we can make reasonable guesses, but we have no way to accurately prove them. here is western science finally being honest. what a relief. and now we can get on with more forays into honesty and what western science has done and is doing to this world by not knowing, or not admitting to not knowing. the uncertainty principle as applied to biology, chemistry, astronomy, archeology! which reminds me, when i taught environmental ed with middle school kids, in archeology, we used to give them modern objects and ask them to take the role of future archeologists in describing the uses. the result was a lot of creative stories and the point was easily made that everything else we were about to teach them was similar: powerful stories created from our current knowledge base, with lots of room for significant error. i loved that. let's start from there, from here, from our own unique perspectives, moving into infinite possibility.

comments on causality:

once in the middle of a long meditation retreat i got a little insight into lifetimes/ ancestral karma as being a simple rebalancing. not a punishment for sins, or reward for good deeds, but a rebalancing of the sort we would attempt to move toward and through in chinese medicine.

and how beautiful that science is discovering areas where effect can't be directly linked in forward moving time or space to cause. so much freedom in that.

i'm becoming increasingly aware of the interconnectedness of all that is. how real and tangible, daily and momentary this interconnection is. seeking to be in what comes as the most natural flow, even within a world disconnected from nature. feeling this flow as a place where cause and effect are intertwined and the feather which greets me at the top of a dry waterfall, did i find it? did it call me there? how are my life and the hawk's life and the life of the riverbed and the surrounding plants and animals altered by or orchestrating this moment? the question itself opens so much possibility and i feel blessed and grateful and joyful to be alive in these moments. in this moment now.

is the universe weird?

extremely, wonderfully, magically. making life worth living.

synchronicity?:

i do pay attention to synchronicites and take them as divine wisdom/oneness attempting to communicate with me. just opening my awareness to possible connections  and understandings and seeing if they come. feeling that sometimes my mind is too busy to listen to my own heart so my heart has to communicate through external voices, be they words and phrases, people i run into repeatedly or dreams, photos, smells, sounds, that occur at very particular moments or which recur repeatedly. feeling the holistic nature of all that is and of course the external would reflect the internal and v/v.